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There's this huge number of desperate people.

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Philadelphia
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Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
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If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.
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Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
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Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.
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That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.
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The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.
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Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
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Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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